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SPRING Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a Hispanic 16-year-old boy who they believed had tried to kiss a Hispanic 12-year-old girl at a party, authorities said.

The attackers forced the boy out of the Saturday night house party, beat him and sodomized him with a plastic pipe, shouting anti-Hispanic epithets, said sheriff's Lt. John Martin. He was in critical condition Thursday, five days later.

Harris County prosecutor Mike Trent said the attackers also cut the victim with a knife. They then poured bleach over the boy, apparently to destroy DNA evidence, and left him for dead, authorities said. He was not discovered until Sunday, 12 hours after the attack.

Illinois

Man gets life for role in bizarre murder plot

CHICAGO A Chicago man was sentenced to life in prison for a bizarre murder plot in which a homeless man was killed so his body could be passed off as a federal defendant, who was trying to fake his own death.

Harry Rand, 49, was sentenced Wednesday for setting up the victim, William White, who had been his friend. Prosecutors say White, 47, was suffocated in 2001 by the federal defendant, Joseph Kalady, who later died in prison.

Kalady was facing trial on charges of operating a fraudulent document mill and had hoped to fake his death by having his brother falsely identify White's body as his, prosecutors said.

DURHAM The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke's lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men, filing a 1996 complaint claiming she had been assaulted three years earlier when she was 14.

Authorities in nearby Granville County said Thursday that none of the men named in the decade-old report was ever charged with sexual assault there, but they didn't have details why.

A phone number for the accuser has been disconnected and her family declined to comment. But relatives told Essence magazine in an online story this week that the woman declined to pursue the case out of fear for her safety.

Oregon

Liquor control director resigns after DUI charge

PORTLAND The director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission abruptly resigned Thursday after she was charged with drunken driving.

Police said officers responded to a two-car crash Saturday night in Portland and smelled "a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage" from inside Teresa Kaiser's vehicle. There were no reported injuries in the wreck.

Kaiser admitted having two glasses of wine over five hours at the home of friends, a police report said. Kaiser's blood-alcohol level was 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit for driving in Oregon, said police Detective Paul Dolbey.

Governor's spokesman Lonn Hoklin confirmed Thursday that Kaiser had e-mailed her resignation to the commission's board of directors that day.

Ohio

Police officer is wounded, traveler killed at airport

CLEVELAND A man who argued with workers at an airport ticket counter grabbed a police officer's gun and shot a patrolman before he was killed by another officer Thursday, authorities said.

The patrolman was shot twice in the chest but was in stable condition, authorities said. Another officer was treated for a bite to his neck by the suspect, McGrath said.

The shootings at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport followed a disturbance earlier Thursday morning involving the same man in an airport parking garage, city Safety Director Martin Flask said.